Today’s tittle-tattle is showing discouraging signs of pace and movement

We start this morning with Tottenham Hotspur, who are poised break the bank with an £Infinity sextuple-swoop for Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon and Harry Hawke. Not really. But Daniel Levy is going to get a really moderate pat on the head from Joe Lewis, which is basically like winning a trophy.

He will then set about resolving his club’s nascent wage-crisis. It seem like Danny Rose will be forced to leave after accidentally behaving in such a way as to make his position untenable. His appalling audacity in speaking honestly looks likely to be punished by a move to Manchester United, where he will earn more money and be more likely to win trophies; it is possible that Luke Shaw will move in the other direction, though such a manoeuvre is fraught with difficulty.